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metaphone

metaphone noun: either of two or more phonemes that have meaning when used together.

Noun

metaphone (plural metaphones)

  1. Either of two or more phonemes that have meaning when used together

Proper noun capitalized: Metaphone

Metaphone

  1. A phonetic algorithm for indexing words by their English pronunciation.

Forms of metaphone

pluralmetaphones

Questions about metaphone

What does metaphone mean?
Metaphone means either of two or more phonemes that have meaning when used together.
What part of speech is metaphone?
Metaphone can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of metaphone?
The plural of metaphone is metaphones.

Words near metaphone in the dictionary

  1. metaphilosophically
  2. metaphilosophies
  3. metaphilosophy
  4. metaphloem
  5. metaphloems
  6. metaphone
  7. metaphoneme
  8. metaphonemes
  9. metaphones
  10. metaphonic
  11. metaphonical

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